RECORDS OF MEETINGS. 491 



"On Sabine's ^Method in Architectural Acoustics without the 

 Use of the Ear." By A. G. Webster. 

 The ^Meeting was then dissolved. 



One thousand and ninety-flrst Meeting. 



April 14, 1920.— Stated Meeting. 



The Academy met at its House at 8.15 p. m. 



The President in the Chair. 



Seventy-one Fellows and three guests were present. 



The Transactions of the last Meeting were read and approved. 



The Corresponding Secretary presented for the Council an invi- 

 tation from the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters 

 to the exercises in commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of 

 its founding to be held on the 23d of April, 1920, at Madison, 

 Wisconsin, and stated that the Council had voted to arrange 

 for the representation of the Academy at this meeting. 



The President announced the death of the following Fellow: 

 Andrew IMcFarland Davis, Class III., Section 3 (Political Economy 

 and History) . 



The President announced the gift from Boylston A. Beal Esq., 

 of a painting by Tilton, representing the Bay of Naples, and it was 



Voted, That the thanks of the Academy be sent to Mr. Beal 

 for his welcome and valued gift. 



The President stated that the Council thought it wise to post- 

 pone for discussion at a later meeting the question of the election 

 of women to be Fellows of the Academy, and it was 



Voted, That the Persident be authorized to appoint a Com- 

 mittee of three to consider the whole question of elections to the 

 Academy. 



Professor Webster moved that it is the sense of those members 

 of the Academy here present that no objection lies against the 

 election of women to be Fellows of the iicademy. 



Voted, To lay this motion on the table. 



The following Communications were read and discussed : 



Professor George W. Pierce. "Submarine Detection and 

 Acoustical Aids to Navigation." 



